Shire not ruling out buying taxi licence

The Shire of Plantagenet says some people in the Mount Barker community will suffer if a buyer for the town's taxi licence is not found.

The town's only taxi licence is up for sale and its owner will stop driving the cab in a matter of weeks.

Shire president Rob Stewart says people without their own transport, including the elderly and disabled, may suffer.

Mr Stewart says the shire would not rule out buying the taxi licence but would need to consider its options.

"Before I made any presentation to the council, I'd have to really look at the finances, really look at the issues of buying a taxi licence, whether that taxi licence needed to be leased out, what would happen to the cost structure," he said.